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Timbuktu has acquired a reputation in the Western world as an exotic, mysterious place, but the city was once a well known trade center and an academic hotspot of the medieval world. Timbuktu reached its golden period under the Mali Empire in the 13th and 14th centuries.
Timbuktu has many adobe and mud brick buildings but the most famous is the university. The masajids (mosques) of Sankore, Djinguereber, and Sidi Yahya were the centres of learning in medieval Mali and produced some of the most famous works in Africa, the Timbuktu Manuscripts. Timbuktu is a city in Mali with very distinguishable architecture.
The majority of Malian buildings hold little architectural importance due to their rural and survivalist nature, but within the population centers of Djenné, Bamako, and Timbuktu great architectural feats in what is known as Sudano-Sahelian architecture exist, mainly found within the Great Mosque of Djenné and palaces. [1]
Great Mosque of Djenné, Famous Landmark in Timbuktu One of the most iconic landmarks in Timbuktu is the Great Mosque of Djenné, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. [ 3 ] Built in the 13th century, this mud-brick mosque is the largest of its kind in the world and is considered a masterpiece of Sudano-Sahelian architecture.
Starting out as a seasonal settlement, Timbuktu was in the kingdom of Mali when it became a permanent settlement early in the 12th century. After a shift in trading routes, the town flourished from the trade in salt, gold, ivory and slaves from several towns and states such as Begho of Bonoman, Sijilmassa, and other Saharan cities. [1]
Outside the mosque Postcard published by Edmond Fortier showing the mosque in 1905-1906. The Djinguereber Mosque (Arabic: مسجد دجينجيربر; French: Mosquée de Djinguereber; from Koyra Chiini jiŋgar-ey beer 'grand mosque' [1]), also known as Djingareyber or Djingarey Ber, is a famous learning center in Timbuktu, Mali.
There are two main substyles of West African mosques: Sudanese [5] and Sudano-Sahelian. [6]Sudanese architecture is defined by its use of pilasters (rectangular pillars on the sides of walls used for decoration), wooden beams known as toron, [7] buttresses with cone-shaped summits, mihrabs, flat roofs, courtyards, sand floors with mats, arches, decorated exteriors, and Tata Tamberma [8] (a ...
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